Catherine II, Empress of Russia

SB produces a treatise rather than a polemic, using a studied moderation of tone. She deploys an artful range of styles and her material is drawn from biology, history, sociology, economics, and in a large...

The Athenæum deemed that this book could be placed safely in the hands of young women. The reviewer for the Morning Advertiser called it [o]ne of those works about women which a...

Though occasionally sketchy (it gives Elizabeth Elstob , for instance, four lines), this is a work of real research, from a consistently feminist point of view. MH investigates the question of women in power with...

Her subjects reach back to the semi-legendary such as Semiramis and Cleopatra . ABJ includes from England Queen Elizabeth and Queen Anne and from Europe Maria Theresa and Catherine the Great .

EJ published by subscription at YorkA Voyage to Russia, Describing the Laws, Manners and Customs of that Great Empire, as governed, at this present, by that Excellent Princess, the Czarina (Catherine the Great).

She writes admiringly of the Tsarina Catherine (whose clothes worn at the opera she describes in great detail), but less so about the Russian diet, climate, manners, and clothing in general. She records...

The third epistle performs the conventional act of praising historical women: the monarchs Elizabeth I and Catherine the Great of Russia for their exercise of power, the French scholar Anne Dacier , and eleven British...

JP 's first purpose included drawing a distinction between a brave patriot and a military plunderer. Revising for the tenth edition, 1819, she was struck by the continuing timeliness of this purpose: by the...

With financial assistance from her lover and mother, VT became especially extravagant while living in this place, where she adopted the values of the world she had said she despised. She claimed that her...

Lady Frances, newly rich, sees herself as holding her fortune in trust for her young nephew and for society as a whole: She considered society is manifestly maintained by a circulation of kindness.